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Yes, OpenEMU runs well on Big Sur, it was rewritten recently to support Metal.. It's also got fantastic support for PS3/4 controllers.. Don't forget to download the OpenEmu BIOS pack from archive.org that will let you get started! It plays PS / PSP games (even the Japanese ROMs) extremely well... I've been able to play games that I know that no company in Japan will ever port over for the American market. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 03:18 on Dec 24, 2020 |
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Something else to consider about the new M1 Macs: https://eclecticlight.co/2020/12/22/booting-an-m1-mac-from-an-external-disk-it-is-possible/ It seems that in order to boot from an external drive on an M1 Mac, the following conditions must be met: 1) You must have a Thunderbolt 3 drive/enclosure, USB won't be honored. Has to be Thunderbolt-only, if it says it will work in a USB-C only port then it's a no-go 2) You have to install 11.1 minimum on the external drive 3) No more holding down option to get the Startup Manager, M1s don't recognize it, you must boot to Recovery mode and use the Startup Disk picker there. (it's still in all Intel Macs though) Thunderbolt 3 drives/enclosures are loving expensive, you're looking at least $75 for a pure TB enclosure. I guess Apple doesn't want people booting off of any old off-the-shelf drive anymore. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Dec 24, 2020 |
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Binary Badger posted:Something else to consider about the new M1 Macs: Wait, so you can't wipe/install the OS from a USB stick anymore? That's lame-sauce.
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Small White Dragon posted:Wait, so you can't wipe/install the OS from a USB stick anymore? That's lame-sauce. Do they make thunderbolt sticks? That would be pretty cool.
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Small White Dragon posted:Wait, so you can't wipe/install the OS from a USB stick anymore? That's lame-sauce. Internet recovery has been the preferred/ supported way for several years now
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FCKGW posted:Internet recovery has been the preferred/ supported way for several years now What about Target Disk Mode? Does that still exist?
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I have a huion drawing monitor hooked up to my iMac late 2013 and regularly it does this thing when I turn it on that the iMac screen flashes and the huion screen also flashes. Both of them keep flashing until eventually things work. It looks like it's trying to find the right resolution/ hz or something but sometimes it takes 5 minutes of this before it turns on and works good. The screen works like a champ besides this issue and is set up as its own display rather than mirroring. Any idea what might be causing that and a way to avoid it? Someone mentioned switchres X as an option but I'm wondering if it's worth the $.
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Quackles posted:What about Target Disk Mode? Does that still exist? It still does but for M1 Macs, it's in a convoluted way.. https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/transfer-files-a-mac-apple-silicon-mchlb37e8ca7/11.0/mac/11.0 You can't just hold down T at boot anymore, you hold down the power button while booting to access an option selection, share the disk as one of those options, then on the other Mac, you connect via the Finder to the target machine's drive. Apple probably decided nope holding down T and a single pass phrase prompt (and that's only if it's encrypted) isn't secure enough anymore, gotta jump through hoops now. At least you can still do it with either a Thunderbolt -or- USB 3 cable, but still LOL at Apple for making another previously simple procedure more complex.. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 13:59 on Dec 24, 2020 |
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I was going crazy trying to figure out why scrolling had suddenly becoming so choppy inside Safari. Turns out AdGuard was causing it. I closed it down and everything's back to normal. Is there a reliable alternative to AdGuard for Safari?
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What's a good, extremely lightweight GUI text editor for mac os? I basically want something like notepad.exe in order to make quick edits and paste snippets of unformatted text back and forth without having to gently caress around with vim registersRollie Fingers posted:Is there a reliable alternative to AdGuard for Safari? People like 1blocker but you have to subscribe to block more than one category, and "ads" and "trackers" are somehow separate categories. I paid for Better Blocker but it misses poo poo that adguard doesn't.
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Clark Nova posted:What's a good, extremely lightweight GUI text editor for mac os? I basically want something like notepad.exe in order to make quick edits and paste snippets of unformatted text back and forth without having to gently caress around with vim registers Visual Studio Code isn't Notepad-level lightweight, but it's clean enough that the features you don't need don't get in your way. I've come to prefer it even for plain old .txt files.
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Clark Nova posted:What's a good, extremely lightweight GUI text editor for mac os? I basically want something like notepad.exe in order to make quick edits and paste snippets of unformatted text back and forth without having to gently caress around with vim registers I’ll go out on a limb and suggest TextEdit. With some quick tweaks in Preferences (open files as plain text basically), it’s plenty serviceable. I say this, but I use Sublime Text. I spend a decent amount of time with various repos and such though.
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Toast Museum posted:Visual Studio Code isn't Notepad-level lightweight, but it's clean enough that the features you don't need don't get in your way. I've come to prefer it even for plain old .txt files. I usually use Code for this type of stuff just because I mostly have it open anyway. It’s not a GUI but if you just don’t want to deal with Vi maybe nano could work?
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There is a built in notes app, is that not what you want? It's basically a super lightweight text editor for your quick notepad stuff.
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nitsuga posted:I’ll go out on a limb and suggest TextEdit. With some quick tweaks in Preferences (open files as plain text basically), it’s plenty serviceable. I say this, but I use Sublime Text. I spend a decent amount of time with various repos and such though. This would have been my suggestion, I always use it in plain text mode and it's everything I ever wanted in a bare-bones-but-fully-native-text-functionality-enabled-and-not-actually-maddeningly-buggy-after-500-years-like-Notepad text editor.
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Yeah, I didn't know about that toggle in TextEdit. It looks like it's perfect for my usage case with text mode turned on. Thanks for all the suggestions
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I still use TextWrangler because it's never failed me, it lets me write python code without having to jump through hoops, and the nags to go to BBEdit full seem to have stopped.
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Since apparently encrypted device passwords are NOT shared via iCloud keychain, what's the best way to keep a secure cloud-based copy of all my encrypted backup drive passwords that doesn't cost extra? Just store them in a keychain file in iCloud drive?
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wdarkk posted:Since apparently encrypted device passwords are NOT shared via iCloud keychain, what's the best way to keep a secure cloud-based copy of all my encrypted backup drive passwords that doesn't cost extra? Just store them in a keychain file in iCloud drive? Why can't you just add them to your keychain that's stored in the cloud as a normal password item? I generally use Lastpass for this type of thing, but I have a few things manually encrypted with ccrypt and stored in dropbox and iCloud Drive. It's simple to use and ubiquitous - just don't forget your passcode.
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Binary Badger posted:I still use TextWrangler because it's never failed me, it lets me write python code without having to jump through hoops, and the nags to go to BBEdit full seem to have stopped. Why not switch? TextWrangler is no longer supported. BBEdit has a free mode now that is the same as TextWrangler used to be.
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CygnusTM posted:Why not switch? TextWrangler is no longer supported. BBEdit has a free mode now that is the same as TextWrangler used to be. Yep. The only nagging is that on first run of any major version upgrade, it shows you a dialog to let you know they're giving you a 30 day eval of the full version. Once the eval period is over, it disables the paid features without bothering you about it. Unless you'd gotten used to one of those features, then you'll be bothered by their absence. Which is obviously the point: the first hit is free! But I'm fine with that. As a freeware user I'd like their business to continue being viable, and their policy of only displaying a dialog at major version changes doesn't feel naggy to me. I never have to click through anything unless I already chose to interrupt my use of the app by letting it update and restart itself.
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Small White Dragon posted:Wait, so you can't wipe/install the OS from a USB stick anymore? That's lame-sauce. You can. You just can't successfully install a full version of the OS to an external USB drive. Or you can't do so reliably, there are scattered reports of some success. (Supposedly installing to a drive connected to the USB-A port of a M1 Mini works. I have an Air, so no way to test that here.) The fact that a USB stick installer still functions for reinstalling to the internal drive is a big clue that the problems people are experiencing when installing a full OS to an external USB drive are early-days bugginess, not a policy decision. Unfortunately Apple's extreme reluctance to ever clarify what is bug and what is policy results in people leaping to conclusions.
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I just want to chime in and say I have paid for BBEdit and I love it. In particular, it has an absolutely ironclad autosave support where no matter what happens, if your computer loses power, whatever - your most recent work should reappear intact, regardless of whether you saved to the file on disk. But if you want something lighter-weight, set TextEdit to plain text mode and turn smart quotes off.
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wdarkk posted:Since apparently encrypted device passwords are NOT shared via iCloud keychain, what's the best way to keep a secure cloud-based copy of all my encrypted backup drive passwords that doesn't cost extra? Just store them in a keychain file in iCloud drive?
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Quackles posted:I just want to chime in and say I have paid for BBEdit and I love it. In particular, it has an absolutely ironclad autosave support where no matter what happens, if your computer loses power, whatever - your most recent work should reappear intact, regardless of whether you saved to the file on disk. Fwiw, TextEdit has served me well in this regard too. All my open windows full of unformatted JSON blobs from 8 months ago that I never bothered or had the guts to go and discard have survived multiple reboots and OS updates.
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I've always found Atom to be lightweight enough for my basic text editing needs but YMMV I guess.
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Haven't seen Textastic either. I regularly use Textastic for plain text, and once in a blue moon XSL template editing. It has some nice contextual highlighting for various types of files. For quick and dirty python editing I use Visual Studio Code, and for full on python dev stuff I use PyCharm.
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Why does apple have such a boner for ULTMATE SECURITY. It's loving obnoxious.
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I appreciate it
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redeyes posted:Why does apple have such a boner for ULTMATE SECURITY. It's loving obnoxious. At least for me, their approach hasn't negatively impacted my ability to use my Macbook air or iPad. I don't use an iPhone. I appreciate their approach, especially for things like homekit, which i've been trying to move my home automation into as much as possible since the widespread AWS downtime a few weeks back broke like half of my smart home devices, leaving them defaulting to their dumb state. I appreciate being able to control the whole system within my home network, especially for things like my locks or any cameras.
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 OpenEmu 2.3 has been released OpenEmu 2.3 is out, and now supports Big Sur. No Apple Silicon yet, runs in Rosetta 2 for now. Light gun support for PS1 and Saturn added. Full list of fixes/features: https://openemu.org/rnotes/2.3.html It actually looks like eventual support for 4DO is coming, as I've got some 3DO ROMs that suddenly appear in my games list, but will refuse to run as the 'Cores' module doesn't seem to have been written yet.
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It will work within your network without a Internet connection. Obviously it is physically impossible for you to communicate from outside your lan into your lan hwithout an Internet connection. All HomeKit certified devices connect to the hub via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth and must be able to work without access to the internet. And in fact, barring a attempt to change your smart devices from outside of your home from your phone or another Apple device, all communication is done locally. Now, of course if you set something up with homebridge that isn’t certified to work with HomeKit then the homebridge itself will communicate directly with your hub without needing to be able to access the Internet but whatever devices are connecting to the homebridge may need access to the Internet because they are not designed to work with HomeKit directly.
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Nitrousoxide posted:It will work within your network without a Internet connection. Obviously it is physically impossible for you to communicate from outside your lan into your lan hwithout an Internet connection. This is interesting to me, because I'm trying and failing to find a smart thermostat (in the EU) which I can control from my iPhone, but which doesn't see the internet - I eventually want to create a separate VLAN for my IoT devices and keep them walled off from the outside world. So HomeKit certified ones should allow this?
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Bobstar posted:This is interesting to me, because I'm trying and failing to find a smart thermostat (in the EU) which I can control from my iPhone, but which doesn't see the internet - I eventually want to create a separate VLAN for my IoT devices and keep them walled off from the outside world. So HomeKit certified ones should allow this? Correct. The ecobee thermostat should be homekit certified. You can also get a homekit compatible router like the Eero which, when you set it up in homekit, will put firewalls around any homekit devices on your network to prevent them from communicating with the internet at large, forcing them to go through the homekit hub. This could be useful if you have homekit devices which support multiple home automation services and you don't trust them to not be taking to the internet. https://support.eero.com/hc/en-us/articles/360036319531-How-to-use-HomeKit-with-your-eero-Network There's a home automation thread on SA that may have more informed people as well. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3635963 Nitrousoxide fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Dec 26, 2020 |
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